Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Lebo

We're small. We have to play aggressively. We can't back off because we're too little. We don't play the brightest by any stretch of the imagination. We just make some plays. If I had any hair, it would be out. We foul way too much. All of that has to do with us being small. We really have to play that way, but we have to be smarter.

Jane Goodall

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

Johann Lamont

When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.

George Lois

I look in the mirror, and I work with the brightest person I know.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Wendi Deng Murdoch

I wasn't necessarily the brightest in my family. I think my older sister was probably more clever, but I worked very hard.

Ian Mckellen

I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

Scott Weiss

For me, the brightest years at IronPort were without a doubt the darkest years at home.

Samuel Johnson

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Matt Benefiel

We struggled with their size and their length. They forced us to make perimeter shots.

Ryan Diggs

We stopped them from getting offensive boards. We did that, forced some turnovers and played our game.

Joel Sullivan

We started out sluggish, but they responded well and picked up the pressure and forced some turnovers.

Hanya Yanagihara

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

Matt King

We knew they did not handle pressure well, so we wanted to get after them defensively. It gave us a lot of transition and forced turnovers (Pleasant had 24 for the game) which gave us numbers at the other end.

Dan Sack

We know who their shooters are and we know their tendencies. We were able to get pressure on them and take their shots away. We forced them to take tougher shots, and that forced their shooting to be off.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates. I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Jeremy Stretch

Ultimately, the ECB will lower rates, ... I don't think they wanted to be forced into doing it.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

Alan Clark

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers.

Bob Lutz

The electrification of the automobile is inevitable.

Arthur C. Clarke

No one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Rick Yancey

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Kevin Connors

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

Hugh Johnson

I think the market has managed the inevitable profit-taking very well, but there's still a lot of skepticism out there,

Dick Peecher

She's very loyal. They were the first school to recruit her.

Carl Forti

To us, it's much more important to recruit someone who can win,

Beth Burns

When we recruit someone who is going to be a junior, we're going to recruit someone who is going to come in and play.

E. B. White

When we recruit running backs, we recruit big backs,

Vivek Wadhwa

Recruiting talent is no different than any other challenge a startup faces. It's all about selling.

Terry Gough

I don't know what it is. Recruiting is crazy.

Greg Schiano

We just have to keep recruiting to the finish. That's it.

Bill Burton

I wouldn't say we're recruiting them. ... Most have taken it upon themselves to run.

Harvey Milk

My name is Harvey Milk and I'm here to recruit you.

Charles Spurgeon

The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.

Alan Hansen

The second half was easy to sum up - and absolute shambles! (on England losing to Denmark 4-1)

Catherine Helen Spence

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

Charlotte Mary Yonge

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

Sydney Smith

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Alistair Darling

The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.

Alistair Cooke

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Aaron Tveit

I still sing every day - in the shower or on the set all day. I'm sure everyone will tell you that I never shut up. But it's not in the capacity that I would like to.

Spanish Proverb

When the steed is stolen, you shut the stable door.

Chris Crutcher

There's only one thing to say to the censors: Shut up.

Michael Irvin

Shut up. Goodbye. Get off the phone, man.

Chris Hadfield

When I did my spacewalks, it was during space station construction. So the shuttle was docked to the fledgling ISS at the time. So we would always stay tethered.

Errol Morris

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Jason Marquis

You look out there, ... and there aren't too many true aces out there that are going to shut you down.

Ani Difranco

There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.